Editing Rail transport in Great Britain (section)

==Industry bodies==

===Statutory authorities===
*[[Office of Rail and Road]] 
*[[Department for Transport]] 
*[[UK Notified Bodies]]

==== Devolved authorities ====
*[[Transport Scotland]] 
*[[Transport for Wales]]

===Network and signalling operations===
*[[Railtrack]] (1996–2002)
*[[Network Rail]] (2002–) – (A "not for dividend" company limited by guarantee)

===Other national entities===
* Institution of Railway Operators
* [[Rail Delivery Group]] 
* Rail Freight Group 
* Rail Passengers Council and Committees 
* [[Rail Safety and Standards Board]]
* Rail Forum Midlands 
* [[Railway Industry Association]]
* Railway Mission 
* Railway Study Association

====Trade unions====
The railways are one of the most heavily unionised industrial sectors in the UK.
*[[Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen]] (ASLEF)
*[[National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers]] (RMT)
*[[Transport Salaried Staffs' Association]] (TSSA)

===Regional entities===
''See [[Passenger transport executive]]''
* [[Transport for West Midlands]] 
* TfGM ([[Transport for Greater Manchester]]) 
* [[Merseytravel]] 
* Metro ([[West Yorkshire Metro]])
* Nexus ([[Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive]]) 
* Travel South Yorkshire ([[South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive]])
* SPT ([[Strathclyde Partnership for Transport]]) 
* TfL ([[Transport for London]])

See [[List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom]].

===Freight companies===
*[[GB Railfreight]] 
*[[DB Cargo UK]]
*[[Freightliner Group|Freightliner]] 
*[[Direct Rail Services]] 
*[[Colas Rail]] 
*[[Devon and Cornwall Railways]] 
*[[Mendip Rail]]

===Open access and other non-franchised passenger operators===
*[[Eurostar]] 
*[[Grand Central (train operating company)|Grand Central]] 
*[[Heathrow Express]] 
*[[Hull Trains]]
*[[Venice-Simplon Orient Express]] (VSOE)
*[[Lumo (train operating company)]]